Figure 16. A time series of beach profiles measured by a team of students from SMCC with faculty from the Environmental Science and Technology program. Each month a transect line from the dunes across the beach to the water line is made perpendicular to shore and along the same path. The starting point (the origin on the graph) is used each time so relative changes can be detected in the shape of the profile. The vertical elevation is relative to the starting point and not to the tides or land elevations such as NGVD. (MGS graphic with SMCC data.)

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